Entertainment reporter David Farrier has had a long standing fascination with cryptozoology - the science of hidden animals.
Cryptozoologists study everything from bigfoot to the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) in Australia, to the Waitoreke (a type of otter) in New Zealand. Some cryptozoologists are even out hunting boring old frogs.
For the last 3 years Farrier has been an entertainment reporter for TV3 News. Fully occupied meeting some fascinating & famous characters he says somehow forgot the joy associated with pondering the existence of creatures yet to be discovered by science. That was until earlier this year, when he took a whirlwind trip around the UK where he found himself at a lecture by two of the world's leading cryptozoologists, Richard Freeman and Jonathan Downes. They were so fascinating he filmed a story about them.
That meeting inspired his quest to find the legendary the Mongolian Death Worm, known by the locals as "Allghoi khorkhoi". Mongolians say it's around 1.5 meters long, reddish-brown in colour with a nasty habit of spitting acid and killing you.
In August, he's going to Mongolia to find it. What's more, it'll be filmed and turned into a documentary about Mongolia's deadly Death Worm.